Baer, F I and F S Bodenheimer, J N Epstein, M Fekete, A Fodor, I J Kligler and L A Mayer Magnes Anniversary Book Contributions by Members of the Academic Staff of the Hebrew University Jerusalem, Hebrew University Press 1938

Cloth, orig wrapps NOT bound in, lxxi + 464 pp. Text in Hebrew with English summaries in the beginning.

Text in German. Black and white photographs of synagogues around the world before and after the war. Original wrapps., 21cm, 31 pp, very good condition. Jews lived in Stuttgart as early as the Middle Ages. What is now Stuttgart's Brennerstrasse was called the "Judengase" (Jew Alley) in medieval times. Jewish communities were re-established in the 19th century; with a population of nearly 5,000 around 1931, Stuttgart developed quickly into Wuerttemberg's largest Jewish settlement. Nearby Bad Cannstatt had almost 500 Jewish residents at the turn of the century (1900). There are four Jewish cemeteries: part of the Hoppenlau cemetery (in use between 1834 and 1873), part of the Prag cemetery (since 1873 and still in service), a section of the Steinhaldenfeld cemetery (now Zentralfriedhof, used since 1944) and a segment of the Steig cemetery in Bad Cannstatt (Jewish cemetery of the Cannstatt community since 1872-73). None of the synagogues, all built in the 19th century, escaped Nazi destruction in 1938. The current Stuttgart synagogue at Hospitalstrasse 36, erected in 1952 on the site of the former Synagogue, is adjacent to the Jewish community center of the "Israelite Religous Community in Wuerttemberg". It has 2,600 members (as of 2003). The city is studded with reminders of the former Jewish community and its prominent members; among others, the memorial to Otto Hirsch on the Otto-Hirsch-bridges above Stuttgart's harbour. The Jewish section of the Prag cemetery contains a monument to the 2,498 Jewish citizens of Wuerttemberg murdered between 1933 and 1945.

Original cloth, 25cm. Text in Hebrew. 301 pp. Someone has covered in mylar and sellotaped the the corners leading to some discolouration to endpapers and pastedowns. Rabbi Abramsky (1886–1976) was a Lithuanian-born talmudic scholar who, with S. J. Zevin, published Yagdil Torah, a periodical dedicated to strengthening Torah study in the unfavorable conditions of the Soviet Union. He was imprisoned by the Soviets but eventaully released due to the efforts of Rabbis and communal leaders in London and elsewhere and came to London first as the Rabbi of the Machzike Adass (where Rabbi Kook had been the Rav) He then became the head of the London Beth Din. His magnum opus was the Chazon Yechezkiel, a multi volume commentary on the Tosephta. He later moved to Israel and gave a Shiur in the Salbodka Yeshiva.

£75.00 [Ref: 9483]

[Salman Schocken] Alei Ayin: The Salman (Zalaman) Schocken Jubilee Volume - contributions on biblical and post-biblical literature, poetry and belles-lettres - issued on the occasion of his seventieth birthday by a circle of his friends Tel Aviv 1952

First edition. Original cloth, 8vo., 504 pp, portrait, leather label on spine, a very good copy. A collection of important essays by leading scholars and Hebrew writers including: Shai Agnon, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Saul Leiberman, Martin Buber, A M Haberman and Gershom Scholem. Schocken was a very succesful businessman, a supporter of Jewish culture, he was a patron of S Y Agnon a major collector of Hebrew books and the founer of the Schocken publishing empire and founder of Haaretz newspaper

£95.00 [Ref: 15060]

[Salman Schocken] Alei Ayin: The Salman (Zalaman) Schocken Jubilee Volume - contributions on biblical and post-biblical literature, poetry and belles-lettres - issued on the occasion of his seventieth birthday by a circle of his friends Tel Aviv 1952

First edition. Original cloth, 8vo., 504 pp, portrait, leather label on spine, ex library but still a very good copy. A collection of important essays by leading scholars and Hebrew writers including: Shai Agnon, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Saul Leiberman, Martin Buber, A M Haberman and Gershom Scholem. Schocken was a very succesful businessman, a supporter of Jewish culture, he was a patron of S Y Agnon a major collector of Hebrew books and the founer of the Schocken publishing empire and founder of Haaretz newspaper